arts and culture
‘The Last Sorcerer,’ 1867 opera by Pauline Garcia Viardot, receives world premiere
March 9, 2023It was billed as a “World Premiere 155 years in the making.”
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‘The Secret Garden,’ musical created by two stellar women, revived in L.A.
March 7, 2023Time hailed the original production as “elegant, entrancing... The best American musical of the Broadway season.”
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‘Siblings’: An East German novella reminds us of what had once been possible
March 6, 2023It comes 60 years after the original German novella appeared. The translator is Lucy Jones.
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A window on ‘Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War’ at NYU
March 3, 2023It's an exhibit that is both a look back at a particular time and place in history and a lens through which to view our current moment.
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‘Dilbert’ is gone from America’s comics pages: Creator Scott Adams is a racist
February 28, 2023Newspaper readers around the country were greeted by notes from publishers alerting them to the outlets decision to stop running the comic.
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